Online discussion platform with user communities
Enterprise Architect - Finance Technology
+ Restricted stock units + Commission
About the job
- At least 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing Finance technology stacks, including enterprise resource planning, procure-to-pay, or record-to-report systems.
- Familiarity with Finance technology stacks such as NetSuite, Workato, Adaptive, Zip, Coupa, Ramp, Workday, Salesforce, or comparable platforms.
- Hands-on proficiency with systems integration, including application programming interfaces, extract-transform-load or extract-load-transform processes, and integration-platform-as-a-service tools, plus data modeling in a Finance context.
- Ability to operate across abstraction levels, from executive architecture discussions to technical implementation details.
- Strong communication skills sufficient to explain systems architecture to both a chief financial officer and a data engineer.
- Experience building and managing data pipelines, including familiarity with integration-platform-as-a-service platforms such as Workato and data warehousing solutions such as BigQuery.
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture for Finance systems, including enterprise resource planning, close management, planning and consolidation, data pipelines, and adjacent tooling.
- Develop and maintain a Finance systems roadmap aligned with Reddit's growth, mergers and acquisitions activity, and evolving reporting requirements.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and serve as the technical voice in Finance technology investments.
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, integration patterns, and data governance practices across the Finance technology stack.
- Partner with Corporate Engineering, Data Engineering, and Security to ensure Finance systems are scalable, compliant, and well integrated.
- Manage a small high-impact team.
- Own delivery of systems engineering work personally.
- Configure, integrate, and maintain Finance platforms such as NetSuite, Workday, Coupa, Zip, Adaptive, or equivalent platforms.
- Design and build integrations between Finance systems and upstream and downstream data sources.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for Finance system issues.
- Support mergers and acquisitions activity through systems due diligence, gap analysis, and integration planning.
- Design and manage scalable data pipelines using tools such as Workato and BigQuery to maintain a robust Finance data warehouse.
- Act as the primary technical liaison for Finance leadership by translating business requirements into architectural decisions and communicating tradeoffs.
- Partner with Finance to understand pain points and proactively surface system improvements.
- Help Finance stakeholders articulate needs, size effort, and sequence work effectively through demand management.
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions workstreams, including due diligence, integration, and cutover.
- Familiarity with analytics engineering practices and tools such as Hex and Looker.
- Experience at a high-growth public technology company.
- Background working with Corporate Engineering or shared services models.
- Exposure to SOX compliance considerations in systems design.
About the company
Reddit operates as a global online platform of communities where users post, vote, and discuss content around shared interests. People create and participate in topic-based “subreddits,” and the platform’s upvote/downvote system determines what content rises to visibility. Content flows from user-generated posts, comments, and conversations, while the business model relies on advertising revenue, premium memberships, and virtual goods (Reddit Coins). The platform differentiates itself through its large, diverse communities and explicit voting mechanism that rewards engaging, relevant discussions and fosters authentic interactions. Reddit’s goal is to help people connect through open discussions across a wide range of topics, while monetizing the activity through ads, memberships, and digital goods.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2005
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue rose 61% to $805 million, with 29% operating margin.
- August 2026 user growth rebounded 8% month-on-month, led by Feed users.
- September 2026 launched 15-second video views beta, boosting advertiser completion rates.
What critics are saying
- Reuters reported July 2026 choppy search referrals cut U.S. user growth and traffic.
- Reddit's Anthropic and Perplexity lawsuits face discovery now, with October 1, 2026 deadlines.
- Google's roughly $130 million data deal expires early 2027, risking a revenue hole.
What makes Reddit unique
- Reddit's 100,000-plus communities create intent-rich niche audiences advertisers cannot buy elsewhere.
- Its 2026 Community Intelligence ad tools convert raw discussions into targeted creatives.
- Reddit's licensing and litigation leverage its corpus against AI crawlers and search engines.
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Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible unlimited vacation days & monthly global wellness days
Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
Personal & professional development funds
Paid volunteer time off
Workspace & home office benefits
Growth & Insights and Company News
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↑ 0%Reddit stock has fallen 43% over the past year to around $153, despite strong revenue growth of 61% in Q2 2026 to $805 million. The social media platform is earning more from existing users, with average revenue per unique user up 36% year-over-year, but faces declining search referrals. Daily active users remained flat as gains from product improvements were offset by fewer visitors from search engines. Management expects continued volatility in search traffic and guided Q3 2026 revenue growth to 47-49%, down from 61% in Q2. Reddit is responding by improving its home feed to become a destination site rather than relying on search referrals. New app user retention rose 50% year-over-year, though from a small base. The company's CEO described the feed optimisation as requiring a year of work, with models currently well behind industry standards.
AppLovin and Reddit both operate in digital advertising but serve different markets. AppLovin focuses on mobile gaming marketing tools, whilst Reddit monetises its community-driven platform through ads and AI data licensing. In FY 2025, AppLovin generated nearly $5.5 billion in revenue, up 70% year-on-year, with net income of approximately $3.3 billion and a 60.8% net margin. The company divested its Apps business in June 2025 to focus on higher-margin software. Free cash flow reached nearly $3.9 billion. Reddit posted nearly $2.2 billion in revenue for FY 2025, growing 69.4% annually. The platform achieved its first full-year profit of roughly $529.7 million, yielding a 24.1% net margin, after losing over $484 million the previous year. Daily active users reached 130 million by mid-2026. AppLovin demonstrates stronger profitability metrics, whilst Reddit shows rapid growth from a smaller base.
Reddit's user growth accelerated sharply in August, with average users rising 8% month-on-month, according to data from Piper Sandler cited by Investing.com. This marked the strongest monthly growth rate for the year, reversing a 2% decline in July. International users drove the surge, growing 29.3% year-on-year, up from 19% in July. US users increased 5.2%, though growth in that segment continued to decelerate. The August uptick was primarily driven by Feed users, which added 79 million, whilst Conversation users declined by 1 million. Reddit crossed 500 million weekly active uniques in Q2, rising 24% year-on-year. Revenue grew 61% to $805 million, including an 84% increase in international revenue.
AppLovin and Reddit show distinct revenue growth patterns despite both relying on digital advertising. AppLovin generates revenue through its digital software suite, including AppDiscovery for mobile app marketing, whilst Reddit operates an internet platform for community discussions. For the quarter ended June 30, 2026, AppLovin reported $1.9 billion in revenue with a 78% operating margin. Reddit posted $804.9 million with a 29% operating margin for the same period. AppLovin's quarterly revenue has grown steadily from $835.2 million in Q3 2024 to $1.9 billion in Q2 2026. Reddit's revenue increased from $348.4 million to $804.9 million over the same period, though with more volatility. Both companies experience seasonal patterns, with advertiser spending typically increasing during fourth-quarter holiday shopping periods. Reddit recently joined the S&P 500 index and launched new automated campaign management tools for advertisers.
Reddit stock surged 9.3% to $158.10 following a Baird research note suggesting the market has already priced in the worst outcome for two AI data licensing contracts up for renewal in 2027. However, the note did not address Reddit's more pressing challenge: declining search referrals as AI systems change how users find content. While advertising generated 95% of Reddit's $805 million Q2 revenue, AI Overviews has yet to match traditional search traffic. Reddit holds a $30 billion market capitalisation on $2.78 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue. The company reaches over half a billion weekly users and 130 million daily users, targeting 1 billion daily users globally. The stock trades 42% below its 52-week high of $270.71.